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It is the main issue with a system that grossly oversimplifies the stat/skill relationship. Dex actually has FAR more to do with your skill to hit things in combat than Str in reality. Str increases raw force which equates to damage. Precision (from your skill and Dex) also aids increased...

Zealot Barbarian with a pocket full of Goodberries... lol

Ok well as it's clear now, that's all's well that ends well. :)

Another very good point - and the reason this ridiculous 'ruling' will be completely ignored by the vast number of DMs.

Sorry - Jeremy doesn't seem to have thought about this - not from a fairness perspective. In a 6 second round, how does it take so long to identify what is being cast that you cannot stop it? To say combat is going to be bogged down by constant rolls to identify is rubbish - Counterspell...

That's what I said....

Counterspell is a very badly written spell per se. Many spells have more than 60ft range, but you can only counterspell if the CASTER is within 60ft, not the TARGET, as it really should be. Also, the main point of the thread is entirely correct, but the Shield spell point isn't quite right, as...

I am nearly finished creating 200 point templates for each of the Archetypes due to 250 points being too much for the start of a game in my opinion. I will probably make them available once I have completed them.

Yeah, you did. :P More usually we mapped the things out and then took photos, and THEN put them in find trays. But the analogy wouldn't have worked as well with the word 'tray' - which is why the lecturer used it of course. :)

Good lord, you'd think people would know LoTR was a book before it was a movie - especially people who pride themselves on the incisiveness of their Google enshrined research! :) I guess what makes me laugh and shake my head the most about all this ridiculous storm in a teacup is that it would...

Yes, both they and older Dragons are far from the terrors they used to be...

Getting people to admitting straight out what they really think when they mistakenly believe they have been cleverly obfuscating it in some way is usually more of a challenge through this mode of communication. So, strictly in this case - you know, the one where you have admitted to calling me...

Well I cannot speak to that - he may indeed have been capricious, but I think it unlikely, if strictly, a possibility.

Then I can only suggest going out and experiencing things for yourself instead of spending so many hours of your life Googling things and taking it all as truth. You'll find as you get older that you tend to remember most clearly the things that gave you pleasure or pain at the time, and they...

I still marvel at the arguments that seem to stem from a seeming inability to think about what can be in a game if there isn't a specific chapter on it in the rules. Spending gold is definitely one. There are so many options that take literally seconds to think of an implement in a 5th Ed...

Pompous windbags thinking they know D&D 'better' than anyone else and endlessly arguing about it would be a primary pet peeve of mine.

You missed the focus of what I was saying and have added extra scope to the question posed by the OP by doing so. We were talking about inspirations of ideas that had come into the game. At no point do I recall him saying these were HIS ideas - he was talking about D&D. So if Arneson brought...

It's one of your 'facts'. I suppose me adding Treents to the list of 'completely bloody obvious Tolkien facsimiles in D&D' is just another invalid part of my argument? I don't make strawman arguments - so if you advocate people wasting their personal time mulling over thread posts by others to...

Not to mention Gary Gygax was apparently a liar when engaging with fans.

Ah, and there it is, the 'attacking me personally' rejoinder you are so well known for wheeling out when someone won't agree with your point of view. As I predicted, you still haven't answered me holistically, because in the round - considering all potential and actual sources, I think I am...